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long and about 45 miles wide, but there are no dependable charts of 

 its shores except for two restricted localities. 



While very little was definitely known of them, the Nunivak Eskimo 

 have long been regarded as the most primitive in this remote region. 

 This was found to be true. Women were found still wearing the lip, 

 ear, and nose ornaments of beads and walrus ivory that were given 

 up years ago by the other Eskimo of western Alaska. The elaborate 

 observances and ceremonies relating to the hunting of the seal, and 

 their social and religious life in general, furnish additional evidence 

 of the extreme conservatism of these people. 



The first work accomplished at Nash Harbor was the taking of 

 measurements and physiological observations on the natives. Much 

 of the western end of the island was explored on foot, bones and 

 ethnological material being collected from several deserted villages 

 and finally from the village at Nash Harbor. After completion of the 

 work on the western end of the island, camp was removed to Amo- 

 lowikimiut, a native village at Camp Etolin, some 30 miles to the east. 



In August the party left Nunivak Island. Mr. Stewart going to St. 

 Michael with the trader from Tanunuk village, Nelson Island, while 

 Mr. Collins stopped at Hooper Bay, an Eskimo village on the main- 

 land between Nunivak and the Yukon, where additional collections 

 were secured. From St. Michael the outward trip was made up the 

 Yukon to Nenana, and thence to the coast to Seward, affording an 

 opportunity to observe the Eskimo along the lower Yukon and later 

 the Tinne Indians farther up the river. 



EDITOKIAL WORK AND PUBLICATIONS 



The editing of the publications of the bureau was Continued 

 through the year by Mr. Stanley Searles, editor, assisted by Mrs. 

 Frances S. Nichols, editorial assistant. The status of the publications 

 is presented in the following summary. 



PUBLICATIONS ISSUED 



Forty-second Annual Report. Accompanying papers : Social Organization and 

 Social Usages of the Indians of the Creek Confederacy (Swanton) ; Religious 

 Beliefs and Medical Practices of the Creek "Indians (Swanton) ; Aboriginal 

 Culture of the Southeast (Swanton) ; Indian Trails of the Southeast (Myer). 

 900 pp. 17 pis. 108 figs. 



Bulletin 85. Contributions to Fox Ethnology (Michelson). 168 pp. 



PUBLICATIONS IN PRESS 



Forty-first Annual Report. Accompanying papers: Coiled Basketry in British 

 Columbia and Surrounding Region (Boas, assisted by Haeberliu, Roberts, and 

 Teit) ; Two Prehistoric Villages in Middle Tennessee (Myer). 



